{"id":95,"date":"2006-11-12T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T14:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2007-01-18T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T14:49:54","slug":"chicago-bidding-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Chicago bidding again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago lost their bid for the 2008 Worldcon to Denver during the vote at LACon IV.  So they&#8217;re gonna try again.<P>From avt_tor&#8217;s LJ (http:\/\/avt-tor.livejournal.com\/194782.html):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>November 11, 2006, reporting from WindyCon &#8220;By a unanimous vote, the Chicago Worldcon Bid corporation decided to bid for a Worldcon in Chicago in 2012. A committee was named to define corporation membership levels for the future, and another to explore facilities options for 2012. The plan is for Dave McCarty to do a preliminary announcement at Smofcon in Kansas City, then an official announcement at the business meeting at Nippon 2007, with a launch party in Denver in 2008.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago lost their bid for the 2008 Worldcon to Denver during the vote at LACon IV. So they&#8217;re gonna try again.From avt_tor&#8217;s LJ (http:\/\/avt-tor.livejournal.com\/194782.html): November 11, 2006, reporting from WindyCon &#8220;By a unanimous vote, the Chicago Worldcon Bid corporation decided to bid for a Worldcon in Chicago in 2012. A committee was named to define [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}